Ballylug

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylug, from 663 m² to 283,684 m² (28.37 ha, 70.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballylug in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  the following developments: (a) a Christmas Village to include 8no. Log cabins for retail use, 2no. Open Shelter Barns, toilet block, Santa's house, animal barn, plant building and all ancillary works; (b) retention permission for 3no. Changing shelters and an Office building in the Fun Park and (c)planning permission sought for a universal access toilet and a wastewater treatment system for the Christmas Village development

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24331

• 3 May 2023N/a

  for permission for a new dwelling, installing a new entrance on to existing laneway, access to public road from existing lane entrance as granter under planning permission 10/2332, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360027

• 30 Jan 2023Refused

  (1) a 26.92m2 timber frame chalet structure as a short-term rental accommodation and (2) all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2375

• 16 Feb 2022N/a

  new dwelling, installing a new entrance on to existing laneway, access to public road from existing lane entrance as granted under planning permission 10/2332, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22153

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballylug.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylug.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylug.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballylug, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballylug.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballylug with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballylug · Baile an Loig

Area

2,052,629 m² (205.26 ha, 507.22 acres)

Civil parish

Knockrath, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Trooperstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylusk, Clara More, Knockrath Big, Knockrath Little, Trooperstown

Placenames

Ballylug on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.